Walney Island

Sunshine all day though quite a brisk wind.
We drove onto Walney Island and then cycled to the nature reserve at the south end where we left the bikes and walked round the reserve. It's quite an amazing place with saltmarsh on the way there and dunes, shingle banks and and lagoons (old gravel pits) as part of the reserve. The lightn=house was at the sounthern end and has the didtinction of having had the only female principal lightnouse keeper.
There were still quite a number of flowers out, including Viper's bugloss, yelloe horned poppy, storksbill and pansies, also a few butterflies, hundreds of gulls, a few ducks and waders and 3  seals.
Picnic lunch and then the cycle back (much easier with a tail wind) before going to look at Furnace Abbey (impressive size) and Roa Island, (see extra for a wreck by the cuaseway). We also are Cartmel Sticky Toffee icecream and reunited a jacket with its owner.
As if that wasn't enough I ran up to the monument and back, not as hard as it sounds and only a couple of miles. Mr Rat did a run before breakfast, which wasn't until 9.30.
We had a somewhat distubed night as a group of inebriated young people gathered in the pub beer garden after closing and wouldn't go until the police arrived. The way they were behaving I'm not surprised Covid is spreading again.